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The legal drinking age was 18, and to avoid unwittingly letting in undercover police who were called "Lily Law", "Alice Blue Gown", or "Betty Badge" [53] , visitors would have to be known by the doorman, or look gay. Army, and other government-funded agencies and institutions, leading to a national paranoia. In the New York Mattachine held a "sip-in" at a Greenwich Village bar named Julius , which was frequented by gay men, to illustrate the discrimination homosexuals faced. The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality. Craig Rodwell , owner of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop , reported watching police chase participants through the crooked streets, only to see them appear around the next corner behind the police. Army Map Service for being a homosexual, and sued unsuccessfully to be reinstated. We were in the streets. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stonewall Inn.

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Become a BFI Champion. British certification and tax relief. Many bars kept extra liquor in a secret panel behind the bar, or in a car down the block, to facilitate resuming business as quickly as possible if alcohol was seized.